The award carries a prize of Rs 21,000 and a memento. The awards will be presented by Marathi writer Madhu Mangesh Karnik on March 10 - the death anniversary of well-known poet and writer V V Shirwadkar, who was popularly known as 'Kusumagraj', at the ceremony here, they said.

Sinha has worked in drought areas and formed a women co-operative bank while Doshi is an famous architect.

Chitre is a mathematician and astrophysicist, known for his research in Astronomy and Astrophysics.